Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Developing Alternatives to Methyl Bromide: A Focus on Acrolein (2-Propenal)
(2008-05-15)
Methyl bromide, a soil fumigant with biocidal action, is used in agriculture to control weeds, fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and arthropods. Due to methyl bromide’s active role in atmospheric ozone depletion, its usage will ...
Discovery, Isolation and Characterization of Bacteriophages Specific for Edwardsiella ictaluri
(2008-05-15)
Two novel bacteriophages that infect Edwardsiella ictaluri, the causative agent of enteric septicemia of catfish (ESC), were isolated from aquaculture pond water and from a diseased channel catfish. Both phages (FeiDWF and ...
Studies on the Biology and Host Location Behavior of Pteromalus cerealellae (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), A Parasitoid of Callosobruchus maculatus (F.) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
(2008-05-15)
Pteromalus cerealellae is an ectoparasitoid of several pests of stored products. Information on several aspects of its biology and life history strategy is grossly lacking. My dissertation focuses on some aspects of the ...
A Real Reflection of How I Write: Young Adult Female Authors Seizing Agency Through Fan Fiction
(2008-05-15)
This research project examines 'fan fiction' (stories based upon existing texts such as movies, books, and video games) written by a young adult female and posted online for others to read. The research was conducted in ...
Identifying Tutor Teaching Strategies: A Case Study of Questioning, Scaffolding and Instruction in the English Center
(2008-05-15)
The field of cognitive science has provided us with a large quantity of research concerning one-to-one teaching strategies used by tutors in multiple fields. However, writing centers have been slow to research these ...
Hearts of San Francisco
(2008-05-15)
This thesis is comprised of a critical introduction and three short stories. The introduction explores my writing process and the struggles and frustrations I encountered and overcame when writing these stories. In the ...
'A Participant in the World': Identity, Change, and the Closet in Angels in America
(2008-05-15)
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America consists of two plays that examine the lives of a group of gay men living in New York City during the mid-1980s. Kushner revised Perestroika, the second play, in 1995, and made further ...
'And Yet God Has Not Said a Word': the Dramatic Monologue as Inverted and Secularized Prayer
(2008-05-15)
Nearly a decade ago, Dennis Taylor identified certain practical applications of religious criticism as a gap within the critical discourses of academia. This gap alarmed me as I read Robert Browning’s “Soliloquy of the ...
The Importance of the Ancient Greek Blood Ritual to the Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
(2008-05-15)
This thesis contends that in several of Poe’s seminal short stories the author inserted as a common theme the ancient Greek sacrifice gone wrong. Uncovering these symbolic rituals will help us to understand Poe as a writer ...
Getting Hair 'Fixed': Black Power, Transvaluation, and Hair Politics
(2008-05-15)
The afros that emerged during the Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s boldly proclaimed that hair is both important and political. The afro directly challenged the traditional ideal of beauty that devalued natural ...
The Role of United States Foreign Policy in the Global Adoption of Democratic Governance
(2005-05-15)
The role of democracy in the foreign policy of the United States is a prominent
one. Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush have named democracy as
motivating factor for military actions around the world. This ...
Multivariate Analyses of Disease Outcomes of Chlamydial Infections in Cattle and Mice
(2005-05-15)
In humans, Chlamydia pneumoniae infection is implicated in 10 ~ 15% of bronchitis and community-acquired pneumonia, and 50 ~ 70% of adults have antibodies to Chlamydia pneumoniae. In livestock animals, ubiquitous C. abortus ...
Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Material into Ethanol: Pretreatment, Enzymatic Hydrolysis, and Ethanol Fermentation
(2004-12-15)
Four different novel processes, ammonia recycle percolation (ARP), low-liquid ARP, two-stage (hot water-ARP) percolation, and soaking in aqueous ammonia (SAA) at room/moderate temperature, were investigated for pretreatment ...
Utilization of Supercritical Fluids in the Fischer-tropsch Synthesis over Cobalt-Based Catalytic Systems
(2004-12-15)
Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) holds great potential for the production of ultra-clean transportation fuels, chemicals, and other hydrocarbon products through the conversion of readily available syngas (CO/H2) from abundant ...
Microfabricated Electrode Arrays Suitable for Stimulation and Recording in Cardiac Electrophysiological Studies
(2008-05-15)
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) caused by ventricular fibrillation is one of the most serious heart related problems in the United States today which is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. The goal of ...
Wide Range Tunable Transconductance Filters
(2008-05-15)
Generation of filters using operational transconductance amplifiers and capacitors (OTA-C) has become more and more popular over recent years. This is due to the need for high quality analog filters that can be implemented ...
Finite Element Analysis of the Mesosphere's Electromagnetic Response to Large Scale Lightning Associated with Sprites and other Transient Luminous Events
(2008-05-15)
In this research, a numerical investigation of high altitude sprites and other mesospheric Transient Luminous Events induced by lightning is presented. A Finite Element Model is created using equations based on a modified ...
A Study of Electromagnetic Induction Systems for the Detection of Unexploded Ordnance
(2008-05-15)
This thesis presents a study of a time domain electromagnetic induction (EMI) system used for detection and discrimination of unexploded ordnance. In general, EMI system components include transmitter and receiver coils, ...
Gaseous Discharges and Their Applications as High Power Plasma Switches
(2008-05-15)
Today’s pulsed power technology requires compact systems for both military and civilian applications, leading to increased demand for research in compact system components. High power switches are one of the fundamental ...
Built-In Self-Test for Input/Output Tiles in Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(2008-05-15)
Very large scale integration (VLSI) circuits use input/output (I/O) cells to both send and receive signals from external resources. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and System-on-Chips (SoCs) with FPGA cores offer ...